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Event Structure and the Left Periphery : Studies on Hungarian
Katalin E. Kiss
Paperback - $143.95
This book provides substantial new results in a novel field of research examining the syntactic and semantic consequences of event structure. The studies of this volume examine the hypothesis that event structure correlates with word order, the prese ...
Understanding Semantics
Bernd Kortmann
Paperback - $90.95
Understanding Semantics offers an up-to-date, broad and thorough introduction to linguistic semantics, the field of linguistic meaning central to the understanding of language. The book takes a step-by-step approach, starting with the basic concepts ...
Reference and Computation : An Essay in Applied Philosophy of Language
Amichai Kronfeld
Paperback - $78.95
This book deals with a major problem in the study of language: the problem of reference. The ease with which we refer to things in conversation is deceptive. Upon closer scrutiny, it turns out that we hardly ever tell each other explicitly what objec ...
Language and Literacy : Studying Discourse in Communities and Classrooms
Eleanor Kutz
Paperback - $61.95
Language and Literacy introduces the study of language as discourse - language as it is used by speakers and writers for authentic purposes.
Grammars of Space : Explorations in Cognitive Diversity
Stephen C. Levinson
Paperback - $112.95
Spatial language - that is, the way languages structure the spatial domain - is an important area of current research, offering new insights into one of the most central areas of human cognition. In this pioneering collection, a team of leading schol ...
Far from the Madding Gerund : And Other Dispatches from Language Log
Mark Liberman
Paperback - $33.95